# Quick! ID the "oh-ee-oh" disco earworm before we both have to shoot ourselves! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071 "2008-04-05T13:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/1 "2008-04-05T13:09:05Z")
Male falsetto, disco beat. Oh-ee-oh! Oh-ee, oh-ee, oh-eee, Oh-ee-oh! Oh-ee, oh-ee-oh, ee-Ohhhh! E-F-E E-F-E-D-C-D E-F-E E-F-E-D-C, D-DCCC! This is has been added to work’s tape loop, and it’s been driving me crazy for two weekends now. So I sang it to the Better Half this morning–“What IS that guy singing?”–and now he’s infected, too. Gah! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/2 "2008-04-05T13:17:59Z")
There are no actual words? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/3 "2008-04-05T14:24:54Z")
Doesn’t that come from _The Wizard of Oz_ ? Isn’t that what the Evil Witch guards where singing ? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/4 "2008-04-05T14:46:30Z")
_Tarzan Boy_ by Baltimora? EDIT: Hm. Found a [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY). More ‘oh-oh-oh’ than ‘oh-ee-oh’. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/5 "2008-04-05T15:11:18Z")
Are there other lyrics? Because the first song that comes to me that has the oh-ee-oh refrain is _Jungle Love_, by the Time. It does have other intelligible lyrics though, and Morris Day is not a falsetto. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/6 "2008-04-05T15:54:29Z")
Tarzan Boy was what I was going to suggest, too. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/7 "2008-04-05T17:06:33Z")
Not [this](http://www.weddingvendors.com/music/lyrics/b/buster-poindexter/hot-hot-hot/), then? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/8 "2008-04-05T20:44:50Z")
None of the above. ☹ It’s one of the Golden Hits of the 60s/70s. Ubiquitous on elevators from Maine to Timbuctoo. Bouncy falsetto, disco beat. Does that help? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/9 "2008-04-05T20:53:30Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] None of the above. ☹ It’s one of the Golden Hits of the 60s/70s. [/QUOTE] It’s not one that they used in one of the Austin Powers movies, is it? There’s a song without lyrics in one of them that ‘everybody knows’, but I don’t know what it is. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/10 "2008-04-05T22:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] It’s not one that they used in one of the Austin Powers movies, is it? There’s a song without lyrics in one of them that ‘everybody knows’, but I don’t know what it is. [/QUOTE] [Soul Bossa Nova, by Quincy Jones.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TM1Ocdk1PCo)- YouTube link. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/11 "2008-04-05T23:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=St. Urho] [Soul Bossa Nova, by Quincy Jones.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TM1Ocdk1PCo)- YouTube link. [/QUOTE] Actually I think it’s _Mas Que Nada_. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/12 "2008-04-05T23:17:10Z")
Possibly the chorus of Sting’s _Don’t Stand So Close to Me_? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/13 "2008-04-06T01:25:50Z")
[QUOTE=KayElCee] Are there other lyrics? Because the first song that comes to me that has the oh-ee-oh refrain is _Jungle Love_, by the Time. It does have other intelligible lyrics though, and Morris Day is not a falsetto. [/QUOTE] Yeah, sounds like that hing at the end of _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_ were they go on stage. Not a Golden 60’s thing though. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/14 "2008-04-06T01:40:08Z")
[QUOTE=St. Urho] [Soul Bossa Nova, by Quincy Jones.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=TM1Ocdk1PCo)- YouTube link. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Actually I think it’s _Mas Que Nada_. [/QUOTE] No, that isn’t _Mas Que Nada_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/15 "2008-04-06T01:42:13Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] No, that isn’t _Mas Que Nada_. [/QUOTE] No, the tune I was thinking of is _Mas Que Nada_ and not the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/16 "2008-04-06T01:44:23Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] No, the tune I was thinking of is _Mas Que Nada_ and not the other one. [/QUOTE] Oh I get it now. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/17 "2008-04-06T01:44:36Z")
I think **Johnny L. A.** meant that _Mas Que Nada_ is the song that the OP is looking for – [link here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fX0zx9dF6A) Edited to add, “Dang, you guys type fast!” 🙂 And that I think that it’s more of a samba than the “disco” that the OP suggested. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/18 "2008-04-06T01:49:21Z")
Just to be clear: No clue what the OP’s song is. The song in _The Spy Who Shagged Me_ that I could never remember the name to is _Mas Que Nada_. Never thought of the other one, but now I know when I hear it it’s _Soul Bossa Nova_. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/19 "2008-04-06T01:51:14Z")
Although I see the Black Eyed Peas have released a “remake”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/20 "2008-04-06T03:53:44Z")
Still no joy. ☹ Sorry to have stumped the panel. Really, it’s one of those Top 40 Sixties-Seventies-possibly Early 80s songs that’s _everywhere_ (which is the most frustrating part–if you’re over 30, you grew up with this song.) It’s extremely likely that he’s not really singing “oh-ee-oh”, that’s just what the dang thing sounds like. Funk? 70’s? ETA: Doobie Brothers? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071.md?page=2)